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  • Senate OKs small-business aid

    The Democrat-led Senate on Tuesday overcame months of Republican resistance to push President Obama's small-business assistance bill toward passage, but it failed in a bid to reduce a costly tax-reporting provision on businesses in the new health care law.


  • LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Stop New START

    President Obama is pushing the Senate to ratify a treaty that would undermine American security: the New START treaty ("Lugar adds GOP caveats to START," Page 1, Tuesday).


  • **FILE** Alex Salmond, the first minister of Scotland (The Washington Times)

    Embassy Row

    The leader of the Scottish government this week angrily criticized U.S. senators who continue to question Scotland's decision to release the Libyan terrorist convicted in the Lockerbie bombing.


  • World Scene

    Iran's internal battles over the handling of U.S. detainee Sarah Shourd flared again Monday as the mouthpiece of the powerful Revolutionary Guard led the backlash against a decision to free her on $500,000 bail.


  • Sen. George V. Voinovich, Ohio Republican (Bloomberg News)

    Small-business credit measure clears Senate hurdle

    In a win for President Obama and his political allies, Senate Democrats on Tuesday won a crucial vote to clear the way for a bill to create a $30 billion government fund to help open up lending for credit-starved small businesses.


  • ** FILE ** Maj. Margaret Witt of the U.S. Air Force Reserve is seen in U.S. District Court in Tacoma, Wash., in 2006 after a hearing in her case challenging her dismissal for being a lesbian. (AP Photo/John Froschauer, File)

    Former colleagues testify for lesbian flight nurse

    A lesbian flight nurse discharged under the government's "don't ask, don't tell" policy for gays in the military was an excellent officer whose sexuality never caused a problem in her unit, former colleagues told a federal judge Monday.


  • Former President Bill Clinton (center) speaks to supporters at a rally for Dan Onorato (left), Democratic candidate in the primary elections for Pennsylvania governor, on Monday, Sept. 13, 2010, in Philadelphia. At right is Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter. (AP Photo/Tom Mihalek)

    Bill Clinton stumps for Dems in Pa.

    Former President Bill Clinton told Democratic supporters Monday that their party leaders deserve more time to turn the nation's economy around because the Republican leadership before them left such a huge hole.


  • In a Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010 photo, Capt. Robert Johnson, right, talks with Lloyd Greer, left, who investigated a plot to kill Johnson, at the Lee Correctional Institution, in Bishopville, S.C. where Johnson was in charge of preventing contraband from entering the prison. Johnson was was nearly killed at his home in an attack planned with an inmate's smuggled cell phone.  (AP Photo/Brett Flashnick)  (AP Photo/Brett Flashnick)

    Attack on SC prison guard renews phone-jam debate

    South Carolina authorities who have helped push for permission to block cell phone signals inside prisons say an officer in charge of keeping out contraband was nearly killed at his home _ in an attack planned with a smuggled phone.


  • New Medicare chief rejects idea of rationing

    The nation's health system cannot be transformed by rationing medical care, President Barack Obama's new Medicare chief said Monday in his first major speech.


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